Staff Meeting/Masterplan Unveiling Questions

October 1, 2011

Embodied material/energy

Why are buildings/functions in the hill shadow (4)

Interaction between school and natural resources on process

Design team expectations of next step

What other users considered in this future that aren’t on the plan?

Where are the gardens?

Parking as a monoculture?

Entry sequence?

Experience from route 100 (perception, noise, views)

Permit issues – Waitsfield

Phasing strategy

Frisbee/outdoor recreation zone

Where are main points of human exchange

Universal access?

Heating

Storage and material location – proximity issues

Solar panels – where are they

Snow dispersal and maintenance

Amphitheater purpose?

Animal grazing location – soil builders

Wild animal habitat

Where does the water leave the site?

Key #s coordination

Energy use – surface area/volume ratio

What are site surface areas

What is the physical invitation to the larger community

Impact of outdoor construction areas on studios (noise)

How to pay for it (budget)

Sewage system/permitting

Nature of armature

Eupsychian structure? (memory)

Why are we getting rid of this building?

Do interns/instructors have privacy?

Why is everything the same size?

Mad river path location

Where is large outdoor gathering space

Are there additional camping places

Function of logging road/scale

Density on dialogue and impact on/to the past

Will plan satisfy strategic plan of 2006

Intimacy and scale issues

Will students participate in design and construction?

Performance metrics

Deconstruction materials

Current structures use – What’s not there

Experimentation sand box

Impact on plan by Bundy property

Economic zone (enterprise zone)

Forestry – lumber management plan

Utilities planning – power/data/waste – flexibility

Bus stop/transportation – bikes/trails

Repurposing of site (exit strategy)

Site evolution over 50 years

Way-finding

Connections to MRV

Occupancy capacity vs. current –occ/sf

Is move uphill a retreat or advance?

Physical output (food, products, etc)

Can you see what we do from the road